control room-aljazeera part1

a documentary on da coverage of iraq war by aljazeera news channel

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News & Politics

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• documentary
• USA
• america
• aljazeera
• iraq
• middle
• east
• qatar
• saddam
• bush
• dick
• cheney
• war
• fox
• news
• cnn

[ronoc9]

We watched a bit of this today in college for media studies. Really interesting. I find it funny that the Americans were like "oh ur bias for showing American troops hurting people" and I was just like, well ur bias for not showing it. I'm not saying one side is better, but I'm saying we need both sides to be a little bias, cos in the middle is the truth.

I love the question he asks, about WHEN did Saddam threaten to use the WMD. WHEN did he publically/privately threaten the US.

[ivangrozny27]

very good film. Revealed the disturbing level of brainwashing & indoctrination of both US media & military. It's true that the Arabs failed to unite to stop the Americans. but its also true that most Arab regimes are American stooges plain & simple. The average Arab in the street knows full well the criminal & murderous intentions of the US but with such inept leaders, there is little that could be done. In the end the Iraqis + a few Arab volunteers had to stand on their own.

[adamdavidsson]

@ronoc9 i was always iffy about the war in Iraq. it was always black vs. white. and now its all grey to me. CNN mixed with Al Jezeera = reality.

[ronoc9]

@trollfinger I've changed a little in the sense I accept bias as a common trait that EVERYONE has and that the only "positive" option is to "try" to not be as bias, but more or less, I suppose I still believe in practicing what you preach. Interesting quote, but who's to say who's suffering. To some people, Iraq is the only one suffering. To other its the troops. I don't know, I still think its a simple "out of sight out of mind" thing. Cool name btw :D

[trollfinger]

@ronoc9

I know your comment is two years old, but I'm sure you still hold the same views. Robert Fisk is a great journalist who says "we should be bias on the side of those who suffer"

[papakilatube]

The director has been detained in Egypt by security forces. Help raise the call for her release. Free Jehane Noujaim #FreeJehane

[lazerz4eyez]

Of the 9/11 hijackers, 15 Saudis, one Egyptian, one Lebanese and two from the Union of Arab Emirates (UAE). None were from Iraq..... The UN Security Council did not fail you Mr Bush, they knew you were lying, and it was painfully obvious when people, like myself, watched Colin Powell's pathetic argument to go to war on CSPAN.

Interesting how Saddam never used WMDs when he was the most threatened during the Gulf War, though he fired numerous SCUDs, none of which were nuclear nor nerve agents...

[ronoc9]

@gg4465a sorry, i get what you mean.Obviously u cant apply the middle to everything, like rape or something, but what I meant was when information distribution and historical recording is concerned we should take opposing biases and agendas and combine them to get a "fairer" view.

[gg4465a]

@ronoc9 I actually strongly disagree about "the middle" being "the truth". It's our mainstream media's MO to take two sides that they call left- and right-wing bias, then occupy the middle ground as if that's always the truth no matter what. The world isn't perfectly symmetrical like that. Sometimes there is a right and a wrong side, and journalism is supposed to be the force that gets the facts and finds out which side that is. Centrism for its own sake does not good journalism make.

[al7achach]

it will falls we are making a plans here in Tunisia and Egypt to make protester go to the street of jorden then yamen after that Saudi Arabia will be under fear from its border then we will hit the net and the government net system after we make the king their weak we well begin after we finish from Egypt by attacking the net in jorden first a king has to fall if one king do falls the other will do too automatically

[ivangrozny27]

@al7achach yes, and very good to see. i hope Saudi falls as well

[al7achach]

@ivangrozny27 NOT ANY MORE MY FRIEND THEY ARE FALLING LIKE AN OLD TREE STEP BY STEP TUNISIA EGYPT AND JORDON AND YAMEN STEP BY STEP